Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

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🧠🧠 The Evergreen Game (Game Exercise) Aug 01, 2025

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Game Exercise: Close your eyes and follow along with an entire Chess game using the audio below. On each move, try to conceptualize the position clearly and understand how it has changed. Try to follow the game until the end to stretch the amount of moves you can see ahead.

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PGN for today's exercise:
[White "Adolf Anderssen"][Black "Jean Dufresne"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O d3 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 Qg6 10.Re1 Nge7 11.Ba3 b5 12.Qxb5 Rb8 13.Qa4 Bb6 14.Nbd2 Bb7 15. Ne4 Qf5 16. Bxd3 Qh5 17. Nf6+ gxf6 18.exf6 Rg8 19.Rad1 Qxf3 20.Rxe7+ Nxe7 21.Qxd7+ Kxd7 22.Bf5+ Ke8 23.Bd7+ Kf8 24.Bxe7# 1-0

⚡ Insufficient Knowledge (Quick Lesson) Jul 31, 2025

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A quick lesson in conceptualization from Aiden at Don’t Move Until You See It.

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🧠 Room Enough for the Two of Us (Opening Exercise) Jul 30, 2025

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Opening Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. At a certain point, one player will make a mistake and it’ll be your job to find the move to punish it.

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PGN for today's exercise:
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"] [Black "Edward Beckley Adams"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Nxe5 5. d4 Bxd4 6. Qxd4 Qf6 7. Nb5 Kd8 8. Qc5 Nc6 *

And the answer is...

Qf8#

👨‍🏫 Reducing Pressure, The Three Fs Part Five (Insight) Jul 29, 2025

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Welcome to the Tuesday insight. Today's episode originally appeared as an article at https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/blog.

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🧠 The Queen and Her Bishop (Position Exercise) Jul 28, 2025

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Position Exercise: The audio will tell you where each of the pieces on the board are and whose turn it is. Find the best move!

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FEN for today's exercise:
4k3/8/5Q2/8/8/5B2/8/6K1 w - - 0 1

And the answer is...

Bc6#

🧠🧠🧠 Load of Pollocks (Opening Exercise) Jul 27, 2025

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PGN for today's exercise:

e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qf5 9. Nxe4 Be6 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 h6 12. b3 a6 13. Bb2 a5 14. Rad1 f6 { White to move. Mate in five. } *

And the answer is...

Qd7+ Bxd7 16. Nd6+ Kd8 17. Nf7+ Kc8 18. Re8+ Bxe8 19. Rd8#

❓ What Is "Clarity" for Verbal Thinkers? (Q&A) Jul 26, 2025

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Aiden answers your questions about conceptualization and making the adult brain better at Chess.

Send your questions to @AidenAtDontMove on Twitter, or aiden@dontmoveuntilyousee.it

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

🧠🧠 Bad Move Rising (Find the Blunder Exercise) Jul 25, 2025

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Find the Blunder Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. One player will blunder and the other will not punish them for it. Can you find the blunder and the best punishment?

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

PGN for today's exercise:

d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 b6 7. Nf3 Bb7 8. e3 d6 9. Be2 Ne4 10. Qc2 Nd7 11. O-O f5 12. Ne1 Qh4 13. f3 Ng5 14. c5 bxc5 15. dxc5 Ne5 16. cxd6 Rf6 17. Qc3 cxd6 18. Qb4 Be4 19. fxe4 Nxe4 20. Nf3 Nxf3+ 21. Bxf3 Rh6 *

And the answer is...
19... Rh6

⚡ Emotional Strain (Quick Lesson) Jul 24, 2025

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A quick lesson in conceptualization from Aiden at Don’t Move Until You See It.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

🧠 Mere Anarchy (Illegal Move Exercise) Jul 23, 2025

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Illegal Move Exercise: The audio will lead you through a series of moves from the beginning of a game. Somewhere in there, a player will make an illegal move but the game will continue anyway. Find the illegal move.

To learn more about Don't Move Until You See It and get the free 5-day Conceptualizing Chess Series, head over to https://dontmoveuntilyousee.it/conceptualization

PGN for today's exercise:

d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 c6 6. e4 dxe4 7. Nxe4 Be7 8. Nxf6 Bxf6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Be2 *

And the answer is...
White's move 7. Nxe4 is illegal because the Knight is pinned by the Bishop on b4.

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